Sixteen states are reporting potential hantavirus exposures, including Minnesota, Kansas and Washington state. Health officials say most of the cases involve people who left the cruise ship at the center of an outbreak before it was identified or others who traveled with exposed passengers. They say all are asymptomatic and isolating at home. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports for TODAY.
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies. The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over th
FTSE 100 business ‘minded to recommend’ £60-a-share tilt from company owned by billionaire Wallenberg family The laboratory testing company Intertek has become the latest FTSE 100 business to agree to a takeover, backing a £10.6bn approach from a private equity firm owned by Sweden’s billionaire Wallenberg family. After rebuffing three previous approaches , Intertek’s board said it was “minded to recommend” the £60-a-share tilt from the Swedish buyout firm EQT to shareholders, if there is a firm
NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas joins TODAY from Beijing to talk about what to expect from President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with China’s President Xi Jinping. He breaks down how the visit will be different from his visit nine years ago in 2017, why Trump is expected to ask for help in negotiating a Strait of Hormuz deal and what to make of the high-profile guest list that includes tech leaders Elon Musk and Tim Cook.
Ceremonial event marks start of new parliamentary year, and outlines government policies and proposed legislation UK politics live – latest updates Continue reading...
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The Iran war will cast a long shadow over the talks. Plus, the 100 best novels of all time Good morning. Donald Trump is due to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening, the first visit to China by a US president since he was last there nearly a decade ago, as he seeks to mend power and prestige weakened by the war in Iran. What is the state of US-China relations? The two countries remain locked in a fragile tariff truce , reached last autumn after tensions threatened to erupt into a full-scale tr
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Demarcation of 410,000 hectares of territory is intended to protect the Amazonian community from farming, illegal mining and logging More than 25 years after the existence of one of the Amazon’s most vulnerable nomadic hunter-gatherer communities was confirmed, the Brazilian government has begun demarcating the Pardo River Kawahiva Indigenous territory , giving greater protection to the uncontacted people. The demarcation of the 410,000-hectare (1m-acre) territorylocated between the states of Ma
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Sources say health secretary intends to trigger leadership election as early as Thursday UK politics live – latest updates Who are the main threats to Starmer’s leadership? Allies of Wes Streeting have said he is preparing to stand down as health secretary amid deep frustration with Keir Starmer’s leadership, and could mount a formal challenge for the leadership as early as Thursday. Downing Street insiders had suggested Streeting did not yet have the required support from 81 MPs, which is neede
